Google Images
Jun. 8th, 2006   4:47pm

Several time speople have voiced concern about the images that show at the top of the Google search for "Congenital Adrenal hyperplasia". As I understand people have emailed them, but they ignore the emails. There’s another tactic we can use to remove those images. They’ll remain in the image search, but we can push them out of the top spots.

Everyone who has a web site, choose the most appropriate image on the main page of your web site and include the following in the image tag...

alt="Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia"

For example on the main page of this site the main logo was...

<img src="i2/SN0001GR_1d_05.jpg" width="445" height="162">

...which I changed to...

<img src="i2/SN0001GR_1d_05.jpg" alt="Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia" width="445" height="162">

What this will do is register that image as directly relating to the term "Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia" when Google spiders the site. Hopefully if enough people do this, especially people with higher pageranks (use this page to check you page rank http://pagerankzone.com) then those images will be listed first, and the offending images will be pushed off.

This site has a pagerank of 5.

The Cares Foundation also has a page rank of 6, but unfortunately they use almost all Flash. The only images are two small ones ("save the date" and "hotspot"), but that may help.

Climb has a pagerank of 5, but doesn’t have any alt text set for their logo.ArmyofMom blog has a pagerank of 5.

Adrenal Hyperplasia Network (UK) doesn’t have alt tags set, and has a pagerank of 5.

The Australian support group is already doing their image right (good work ya’ll...I mean mates) and they have a page rank of 5 and their logo is #25 in Google’s image search. Which means that once everyone has the alt element fixed, we can create links on the sites to the images, which will then boost their "value" and help push them toward the top.

I’ll also tag the logos on as amny of my pages that I can since I use the same images on each page.

I’m not tagging the rotating pictures because many have worried about them showing up on Google. I don’t think Google lists script generated images in image searches anyway.

Danny Carlton
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